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Assembly of printing machines at the Marinoni factory. Most of the work appears to have been done by hand.
One of the only published images of the assembly of printing machines in the 19th century appears in Marius Vachon's Les arts et les industries du papier en France 1871-1894. I have reproduced it here. Though many of the parts in the printing machines were undoubtedly manufactured in a different place in the factory, assembly of the machines, as shown in this image, appears to have been done mostly by hand.
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